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Smilax purhampuy

Botanic Family

Smilacaceae

Author

Ruiz

Common Names

• Sarsa Parrilla (Ecuador)
• Quilambo Huasca (Kichwa)
• Baucu (Siona)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amazonas - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• montane forest ; cloud forest
• coastal
• riversides
• shrubland
• lakeside
• forest remnant
• forest islands in wet savanna.

Flowering Times

• Jan-Apr (Nic)
• Oct-Dec (Brazil)
• Apr (Costa Rica)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nic)
• May (Costa Rica)

Thorny glabrous liana, scandent shrub or herbaceous vine with tendrils, recurved spines to 5mm long, aerial roots, verruculose branchlets. Coriaceous mucronulate leaves to 270mm x 170mm. Axillary umbels or racemes to 130mm long with 3-lobed bracts to 15mm long, with 15-20 flowers, with 3-lobed bracts to 15mm long & bracteoles to 1mm long, green flowers to 6mm, male umbels to 60 flowers, male tepals to 6mm long x 1.5mm wide, female umbels with 5-10 flowers. Berry to 14mm diameter, yellow, orange or red, occasionally black

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• NYBG
• JAA
• FOPE
• Standley
• Kew